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80. A. niobc, var. eris, Meig. 

 Common at 8000—4000 feet. 



SI. A. aclippc, L. 



82. A. pa]iliia, L. 



Taken at Kostenetz in July. 



83. A. pandora, Schiff. 



Taken at Kostenetz at 3500 feet. 



84. Melanargia galathca, L. 



Common up to about 3500 feet ; also at Slivno at 1500 

 feet early in June. 



85. M. larissa, Hlib. 



Mrs. Nicholl found this species common at Slivno at the 

 beginning of June. The specimens are dark, very like 

 some from Syria, but I have none from Greece or Dalmatia 

 for comparison. 



86. Erchia cpvpliron, var. orientalis, n. var. ? 



We found this pretty common in the Rilo Dagh at from 

 about 5000 to nearly 7000 feet in the end of June and 

 July, in company with oimc and medusa, in places where 

 long grass grew on sunny slopes. 



On comparing it with a large series of various forms of 

 this species from the Harz, Vosges, Styria and Pyrenees, 

 I find that it comes nearest to the Pyrenean form in size 

 and markings, but can be separated from it as well as from 

 all others by the following characters — In the ^ the band 

 of the fore-wing above is less defined and the two lower 

 ocelli constantly absent (though I attach little importance 

 to this, as similar siDecimens occur rarely in other places). 

 In many specimens there is a distinct chocolate stripe 

 extending inwards from the apical ocelli which is 

 characteristic of this form, and of which a trace is seen in 

 one other specimen only (from the Sau Alpe in Styria). 

 In the female, however, the difference is much greater, the 

 ocelli above being ringed with white, and the ground colour 

 below much more like that of ame ^, having the ground 

 colour greyish, pale marginal band very distinct, and the 

 ocelli strongly ocellated with white points in the centre. 



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